An experimental eye-tracking study of text adaptation for readers with dyslexia: effects of visual support and word frequency

Easy-to-read guidelines recommend visual support and lexical simplification to facilitate text processing, but few empirical studies confirm a positive effect from these recommendations in individuals with dyslexia. This study examined the influence of on sentence processing through eye movements at both text- word-level, differences between readers without Furthermore, we explored reading experience vocabulary, as control variables. We tested 20 young adults dyslexia chronological age-matched controls. Participants read 60 sentences total. Half contained an image other half did not, low-frequency word high-frequency word. Results showed that facilitated potentially by jointly facilitating semantic access. also found participants lower print exposure vocabulary benefited more word-level simplification. conclude adaptations could benefit low smaller vocabularies, therefore, many dyslexic who show characteristics.